Improved medical compound



NrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

IMPROVED MEDICAL, COMPOUND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 55,160, dated May 29, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARGARET RICHARD- SON, M. D., of Norristown, in Montgomery county, State of Pe1msylvania,'have invented a new and useful Medicine for the Cure of Cholera and other Bowel Complaints; and I do hereby declare the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptioi'l thereof.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will proceed to describe its composition.

The medicine is made of a mixture of the following ingredients in certain proportions, and is used for the cure ot'cholera, bowel complaint, dysentery, choleru-morhus, and summer complaint: tinct. opii, f. 3 vi; tinct. oamphoroe,f. 3 vi; tinct. olei menthte piperita, f. 3 vi; tinct. rhei, f. 3 iv; tiuct. zingiberis, f. 3 vi; tinct. kino, f. 3 ii; tinct. capsici, f. 3 ii.

The same ingredients may be expressed in common English terms thus: tincture of opi- MARGARET RICHARDSON, M. D.

Witnesses L. E. GoRsoN, CARROLL S. TYsoN. 

